Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 217 pages) : maps. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Blacks in the diaspora
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Blacks in the diaspora.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index. |
Contents |
Black women and the early development of the French Antilles -- The Atlantic slave trade, Black women, and the development of the plantations -- Women and labor: slave labor -- Women and labor: domestic labor -- Marriage, family life, reproduction, and assault -- Discipline and physical abuse: slave women and the law -- Women and resistance -- Women and manumission. |
Summary |
Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635--1848Bernard MoittExamines the reaction of black women to slavery. In Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635--1848, Bernard Moitt argues that gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. He details and analyzes the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and French Guiana from 1635 to the abolition of slavery in the. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Enslaved women -- West Indies, French -- History.
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Enslaved women. |
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History. |
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Women, Black -- West Indies, French -- History.
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Women, Black. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Moitt, Bernard. Women and slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001 0253339138 (DLC) 00143858 |
ISBN |
0253108764 (electronic book) |
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9780253108760 (electronic book) |
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0253339138 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253339133 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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0253214521 (pa ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253214522 (pa ; alkaline paper) |
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